[innercityteacher]

Well, the season is winding down for me as school is starting and I was reading the "Final Missing Piece" thread with VJ's excellent and gracious commentary and suddenly, lots of stuff clicked.

Daryl, OB Left, KevCarter, JerryG, Yoda's Luke, Yoda, EdZ and others had tried to get me to see the elephant in the room but I was blindfolded and could not see or smell.

I slid my right foot back this morning at 6:25am and marched back with my right foot and then my left foot. My shoulder stayed on plane. My power was almost effortless and once I figured out the ball positions my irons were more crisp than my wife's excellent bacon.

I also lightened up on the EA and I still had plenty of structure to my wedges. Even my dreaded driver cooperated with a slight draw and even a slight fade on request.

We still have aeration marks in two of our nine hole tracks which misdirected several chips and putts during the first 18 (44/40) so I made up my mind to just hit it closer on the second 18 (38/40). The first 9 holes on the second round was a track I did not play earlier.

All day long, I felt like my left leg was a cement post. It felt solid and I swung around it easily. The extension and whip of the club around me was amazing. I hit several drives (albiet with hard ground) to places I never got to before. I did not go over the top all day!

I feel like the light has just gone on and I am excited about what the Pivot can do for me. I will be ordering VJ's stuff, too.

Thanks guys!

Patrick

Notes to self: Start with your left wrist being level with Standard Address (Mid-body hands) (No need to be Moe Norman RIP!) Very unusual looking flat left wrist (cocncave) at wrist cock position. (Thanks, Kevin, Jerry, and Yoda, Holla!). Is that the "bulletproof " arched left wrist in yoda's driver video?

Very easy/slight marching motion cocks left wrist. Keep head still and make a slight bump left, or shoulder up left, or a small march. Watch the vertically uncocking left wrist slam DOWN into the ball and finish swivel automatically!!!! Remember Jeff's story of a guy who taught "stopping" at impact to get the DOWN! Remember Lynn's vertically uncocking left wrist video! PIVOT DOWN!! "...and that ball will act a whole lot differently!"

Ball in front of left shoulder and an even smaller left march to watch club overtake the left arm and fire the driver like a bullet down range and straight!. Jerry mentioned this drill and mentioned elsewhere. Practice monitoring the left hand as clubface. In swinging, it does feel like "one long swivel" through the ball! Small left march = big driver bullet-like trajectory. Keep head still and watch it buzz away with H.Hinge. Angle Hinge at toe WILL SLICE! Learn right foot back and head positions for precision!

Don't forget that you use a lighter Extensor Action to give shape to the Power Package and allow for swivel to "stick left thumb in your ear." (Address Routine Videos watch them, watch Barclay's video!) Practice the RFT from Mid-body hands and point # 3 PP straight to God or be an Indian (native ) chief saying "How?"

With RFT and Irons, belly-button turn really drags the wedges through with lots of delay, left foot out and Pivot is very strong with extra carry to shot and straight! Mountain-climbing!

SETUP WITH LEVEL LEFT WRIST/Right Hand sightly under. Monitor the concave left wrist vertically cocked from Standard Address, March or RFT with light EA, March left or BB with HH.